Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place.
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We are now at a point where we must decide whether we are to have a future on this planet, not because of the atomic bomb, but because of the way we have treated the world.
As global data-center power consumption (the energy for AI Infra) is expected to roughly double to nearly 1,000 terawatt-hours by the end of the decade, according to an estimate by the International Energy Agency, solar arrays in space, on the Moon, around the Moon beaming energy back to earth isn't as crazy as it sounds.
